Scones have recently become one of our favorite quick breakfasts and on-the-go snacks. Scones are sturdy and compact so we can easily break off pieces to nibble or stow one in our bag without worrying that it will get smooshed. Crumbly, cakey, or full of fruit - what's your favorite kind of scone?
And of course there are endless variations of the basic scone recipe, so we're not likely to get bored of them! Here are a few favorite recipes from our archives:
• Fresh Cranberry Scones - We've also made these with dried cranberries that we've plumped in orange juice for a few minutes. You could also use any other fresh fruit!
• Parmesan Chive Scones - These can be made with any kind combination of hard cheese and fresh herb
• Carrot Rosemary Scones - An unlikely combination, but so good!
Individual baked scones can be wrapped in plastic and frozen for a few weeks. We take one out while we're making coffee, and it's usually thawed by the time we're ready to eat it. A pass through a toaster oven or zap in the microwave, and it's like the scone just came out of the oven!
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I like the quick scone recipe in The Joy of Cooking (the recipe with the oats & melted butter in it). I usually put in chopped up crystallized ginger and a bit of cinnamon. The regular recipe in Joy is good too, just take an 10 minutes and the morning exertion of using a pastry cutter.
I think my favorite scones are the ones with more butter than should ever be put into a breakfast product. :)
My favorite flavors are ginger with raspberry jam and scones with chopped rosemary and walnuts throughout slathered with some honey butter. NOM NOM NOM.
I vastly prefer fruity muffins to fruity scones, but cheesy scones are the ultimate! Especially cheesy spicy scones, like cheddar-jalapeno. And yeah, laetitiae, the butter. The excessive, fabulous butter. My waistline really can't do scones too often.
I like round scones. It's not so much the roundness, as I know when they are round, they are the kind of scones I like. I think of triangular scones as very "American" scones - too sweet and the wrong texture (kind of sticky yet dry). I vastly prefer a round, more traditional scone, with jam and lots of clotted cream. Or butter. Something a little closer to a Southern biscuit than a muffin (which triangle scones are to me).
I love plain scones, or just about any scone from Alice's Teacup in NYC. Or just a fresh out of the oven scone. Also very good scones at Tea and Sympathy, also in NYC.
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I recently made the scones from The Bread Bible and was very impressed - they were light, buttery, and nicely crumbly. Otherwise, I grew up making currant scones. I think we used the recipe that was on the back of the current box.
Savory scones is territory I'd really like to try.
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I love pumpkin scones from the Canadian Living cookbook. NOM NOM NOM too! ... I must say they are cutter when triangular in shape..!
At 400-600 calories a piece no scone is among my favorite snacks or breakfast meals. As much as I love their taste, it's not one of those choices I want to have as a habit given their generally limited nutritional value. Heidi Swanson at 101 Cookbooks has a receipt for Maple Scones that are about as healthful as any I've ever seen and the only ones I would make myself.
Currants and scones are like Frick and Frack for me. Add a pinch of rosemary, and I'm in heaven.
I love a good savory scone, though! Bacon and pear are just delicious.
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Mmmm.... Scones! Just reading the comments made me hungry.
There was a bakery in Burbank called Crust that closed last year. They made the most amazing blueberry lemon scones. I live in Portland, and it was my ritual to bring these scones back when I would go to CA to visit my boyfriend. I am heartbroken thinking about them. Any ideas about how to find their recipe?
love love love cinnamon chip scones
Scones! They are everywhere it seems. I love the scone recipe from Fine Cooking. I think it was an issue from last spring.
I love these things, and I need to make them more often. I use a recipe I saw featured here for pumpkin seed cream scones, but I subbed in pistachios. So good :D
I need to play with the recipe and make some other flavors.